Themes & Projects

Mysteries, December 2008–January 2009

Maritime literature, January–March 2009

Melville read-through, part I, TypeeWhite-Jacket, December 2009–January 2010

Whirlwind tour of Russian literature, February–May 2010

Epistolary literature, July 2009–June 2010

Melville read-through, part II, Moby-DickBilly Budd, July–September 2010

The Unstructured Clarel Readalong, August–September 2010

The Art of the Novella Challenge, August 2011

The bibliographing Reading Challenge, January 2011–present



Authors

“There are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the power of thus affecting us”

I’ve always enjoyed the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe, and last night I dipped into my mystery/horror/gothic month with one of my favorites, “The Fall of the House of Usher.” For whatever reason, I had not re-read it in a very long time, but it gave, as I remembered, the perfect sense of [...]